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[Ruins of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, S.C.] – Antique Print

[Ruins of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, S.C.], [1865?] — historic photograph
[Ruins of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, S.C.], [1865?]. Historic photograph from the Charleston collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few places in the Civil War carried as much symbolism as Fort Sumter, the masonry fort at the mouth of Charleston Harbor that was battered into rubble during the conflict. Confederate batteries fired on the fort in April 1861, starting the war, and Union artillery later pounded its walls while the Confederacy held it. This stereograph, dated 1865 with a question mark, shows the wreckage that remained after the fort was reoccupied. Stereographs like this were sold as parlor entertainment, and the paired images gave viewers a three-dimensional look at the damage.

Created / published[1865?]
GenreStereographs 1860-1870.Photographic prints 1860-1870.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction & pillage. Forts & fortifications--South Carolina--Charleston--1860-1870. Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,511 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-131380

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